tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753668960778118906.post7123644806458271314..comments2021-03-22T10:54:50.159+01:00Comments on How Can I Explain This?: Perl, open source and gender biasbakkushanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05417272581094785872noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753668960778118906.post-9050265229727506802009-07-28T21:32:21.977+02:002009-07-28T21:32:21.977+02:00Thanks, Phillip, David's blog entry is pretty ...Thanks, Phillip, David's blog entry is pretty darn good!bakkushanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417272581094785872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753668960778118906.post-68259653629031261432009-07-28T20:26:14.885+02:002009-07-28T20:26:14.885+02:00You may find this take interesting too:
http://eav...You may find this take interesting too:<br />http://eaves.ca/2009/07/28/remixing-angie-byron-to-create-the-next-million-mozillians/<br /><br />'d like to see some of the discussion that David raises in the Perl community.Phillip Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06008216544225337123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753668960778118906.post-62445031498980525272009-07-28T08:48:32.071+02:002009-07-28T08:48:32.071+02:00Thanks for the clarification and correction!Thanks for the clarification and correction!bakkushanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417272581094785872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753668960778118906.post-18025465620905171102009-07-28T04:46:49.722+02:002009-07-28T04:46:49.722+02:00The ways the surveys were conducted were kind of d...The ways the surveys were conducted were kind of different, so I'm not sure that Perl is better than most. The FLOSSPOLS one contacted people whose names were in commit logs of major open source projects, I believe. The Perl survey was not just for contributors *to* Perl but also users *of* Perl, so we got a lot of people who were eg. using Perl for their dayjobs but not really part of the Perl community. The Drupal figures, from what I hear, are largely based on the proportion of women attending major Drupal conferences. So it's all a bit fuzzy.<br /><br />Casey West was asking me at OSCON whether I thought Perl was better than most open source communities. I said it was about standard. We realised we know a lot of women "in the Perl community" but that none of them are on the major mailing lists, IRC channels, or the like; rather, women in Perl tend to be at the *edge* of Perl, having burnt out at various points and left the centre of it. We had trouble coming up with the names of any/many women who are currently regular contributors to Perl 5 or active CPAN authors.<br /><br />K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com